[pammf]

A good part of that is a disguised sense of superiority.

Life becomes way lighter when you realize other people are also smart and what you’re “fixing” can very likely be:

- something so unimportant that no one felt it was worthy working on

- something that was supposed to work like that, and you simply don’t agree and want to make it your way

[arkey]

> A good part of that is a disguised sense of superiority.

Or not. It can be the struggle of having higher than average standards.

Sadly, your list is incomplete without:

- something someone didn't bother to put any effort or thought into at all.

[pammf]

You are right. My comment wasn’t meant to completely invalidate the point of the article or to provide an alternative exhaustive list of causes, but more to bring this other aspect that I felt wasn’t surfaced yet.

[Joker_vD]

Like the accessibility ramp that has a sign post right in the middle of it.

[matheusmoreira]

All of programming comes from a sense of superiority.

Programming is the closest humanity has ever gotten to godhood. We're creating entire structured universes out of unstructured bits. The system reflects the understanding of its creator.

We're all pretending to be gods, warring over the system's design.

[wiseowise]

I wish this meme would die already. You're just writing some mumbo jumbo that you've learned (at least most of it) in a couple of years, chill out.

[walleeee]

The tools we use shape us. Habits have inertia. The parent may be hyperbolic but it's not wrong.

But it didn't start with computers or programming, this tendency has been a long time developing.

[casey2]

For most programmers is that shape round?

[walleeee]

Shrimp shaped more reliably, ime.